Kelis - C/D

I wouldn't call it specifically willful, Josh -- my own reaction to it was that when it came out, and that the past couple of years have seen it elevated to where it is doesn't so much mean I'm trying to be contrarian so much as my own reactions to it just stand out all the more. I don't know whether that helps any or not. To address the larger question...*thinks*...I think it just means that people's tastes are more complicated and less prone to rigorous 'if x then y' conclusions that might be thought. Admittedly that's the type of thing I would say, but it doesn't really strike me as odd.

I'm never really sure what all you listen to

Shouldn't that be everyone's goal? Why confirm expectations? :-)

HAHA I WAS ONLY JOKING NED PLEASE SPARE MEEEE

oh wait, they were at the time as well...

Death to the unbeliever.

my posts seem really dumb months later :(

Eh? Why do you say that?

Is Milkshake actual new single, or just floaty-around-newness? Is there imminent third album? Want want want want WANT.

(producers allegedly include timbaland, diddy, dame grease, r saadiq and dallas austin)(no i don't know who all of those people are either)

I think "Popular Thug" (original) is her finest moment though.

I heard new single 'Bossy' yesterday which hasn't stuck in my head, but I need to give it a few more plays.

My girlfriend showed me a feature of her in Elle magazine and she appeared to be sporting a Supremes-like straight bob haircut too.

'bossy' is initially underwhelming - it's VERY minimal, though when i listened back to tasty at the weekend i realised that she was playing with sparse plinky-plonky 808 sounds on quite a few of the album tracks there. i think it's good, and it makes me very intrigued to hear what she'll be up to on the album, but it's an odd choice of single. i heard it last year and thought it was just an unreleased demo like 'running mate' - i didn't think it had the oomph to be a lead single!

I knew short dog wasn't goin out like that though, dream on

has this grown on anyone else as much as it has me? really badly want to hear the new album...

she hates it

i hear this the opposite -- he's too smart to tangle with her, so the best he can do is be her hype man.

great song. sexy video.

AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!

Just needed to be said.

Has anyone heard this? It sucks she's not working with the Neptunes anymore...

And I think Bossy has a lot in common with Milkshake, with that stupid ringtone friendly repetitious melody. To be honest I'm glad the Neptune's aren't producing the album, maybe its because the Wanderland album bombed considering how big the singles where.. what I've heard sounds better for the lack of there trademark beat shuffle which was *Everywhere* when Wanderland came out..

Not heard "Bossy" at all, but still enjoy "Milkshake" and "Trick Me" on occaision.

the futurism/conscious stuff in little suzie especially, its like the direct predecessor to janelle monae. i wonder how different kelis' career could have been if this was a hit in the states.

new song is strong imo, i'm into the production.

holy shit i never heard the young fresh so solid remix before! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wiFB3B8qyY

it's a mess, but it's also totally great.

I just heard the last part of a great interview w/ Kelis on the broadcast of the "BBC World Service" (for either March 4 or 5, I would guess)

anyone know where I can find the rest of it? google is no help.

One of these, maybe? Kelis seems to have been on BBC Radio a lot in the past couple of days.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/iplayer/?q=kelis

kelis flesh tone is insanely underrated

21st century/fourth of july are all time

22nd century **

otm

I did not remember that Ned didn't like Kelis

Playing 3 shows in Victoria soon, sounds amazing

felt sad at seeing her judge that awful choir competition thing on the BBC (since cancelled?) but hey gotta pay the bills

icymi https://www.thefader.com/2019/06/05/kelis-neptunes-produced-record-wanderland-is-finally-streaming

classique

this disclosure thing is my dance anthem tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM2oOEmDU3w

oof cringey video tho

solid jam

by all accounts Nas was a terrible husband and his story of their relationship on "Bye Baby" is probably a load of bullshit, but this image stuck with me:

You screaming at the racist cops in Miami was probably
The highlight of my life

https://pitchfork.com/news/kelis-says-she-wasnt-told-beyonce-sampled-her-on-renaissance/

“Milkshake” is interpolated on Beyonce's “Energy.” When she heard the song was sampled, Kelis likened it to “theft.” She is not listed as one of the producers, composers, or lyricists on the sampled song and has previously discussed the terms of her early contract.

It's the delivery of the lines "On stage, rockin', I'm star crazy, Cocoa flow like 1980's" using the flow from the Milkshake hook that's in question? used to be a commonplace and benign thing to make references like that

maybe I'm not hearing it right

Kelis thinks she should have gotten a songwriting credit for "Milkshake" long ago, but acknowledges she signed a contract then. So since there's a credit on the B album to the Neptunes for the "interpolation" she thinks she should have been credited as well. But yeah that used to be commonplace to make melodic references like that.

Aah now I get it, thx

So she's dating Bill Murray. Huh.

Um…

Great revive?

I don’t know what famous people do.

Pondering it too much, that way lies madness.

Not that this will stop me.

I don't have any actual opinion about Kelis dating Bill Murray, I just thought it was interesting in a "pictures of famous people you wouldn't expect together" way.

Right, of course.

Guess we might as well actually see a picture.

https://consequence.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Kelis-and-Bill-Murray.jpeg